These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.